Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion,
my offspring – my own flesh and blood – for my sin?1
[6:7]1tnHeb “the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is often translated “soul,” but the word usually refers to the whole person; here “the sin of my soul” = “my sin.”